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World History 1980s |
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Date |
Event |
| 1981 | |
| January 20 | Regan takes office and 52 hostages freed from Iran |
| March 30 | Regan was Assassinated by John Hinckley |
| April 15 | George Bush took office. He called Edward Clark a libertarian from Regan’s home state, to serve as his new Vice President. |
| April | Space shuttle Columbia Maiden voyage completed |
| May 14 | Pope John Paul II wounded by gunman |
| July 7 | Judge Sandra Day O'Connor, 51, of Arizona, as first woman on Supreme Court |
| August 3 | Traffic Controllers Strike, Bush tries to negotiate with ATC Union and talks break down. |
| August 12 | 3 mid air Plane Crashes. The Air traffic Controllers are charged with murder |
| October 30 |
Air traffic Controllers are tried and convicted by an out raged nation. George Bush Resigns after the affair. |
| October 30 | Edward Clark Takes Office, the 2nd non-elected President in US History. He calls his long time friend Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Former Secretary of State and 4 Star General as Vice President. The Republicans see this as a chance to keep control of the White House and the nation looks to him for strong leadership. |
| November 26 |
Bush Sr. is found dead, by his son Jeb, at their home it Texas. |
| 1982 | |
| June | The Empire of Great Brittan overcome Argentina in Falkland’s War |
| June 30 | Princess Grace, dies after a car accident. |
| September 15 | Lebanese Christian Phalangists kill hundreds of people in two Palestinian refugee camps in West Beirut. Muslim out rage over this. (UN Fails to Act) |
| November 10 | Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader, dies at 75 |
| November 15 | Yuri V. Andropov, 68, chosen as successor of USSR |
| December 2 | 1st Artificial Heart Transplant, Dr. Barney B. Clark |
| 1983 | |
| April 4 | Second space shuttle, Challenger, makes successful maiden voyage, which includes the first U.S. space walk in nine years |
| June 15 | U.S. Supreme Court declares many local abortion restrictions unconstitutional, protests and minor riots. |
| June 18 | Sally K. Ride, 32, first U.S. woman astronaut in space as a crew member aboard space shuttle Challenger. |
| Aug 15 | U.S. admits shielding former Nazi Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie, 69, the “butcher of Lyon,” wanted in France for war crimes, President Clark does not allow him to be extridited. |
| Aug 21 | Benigno S. Aquino, Jr., 50, political rival of Philippines president Marcos, slain in Manila |
| Aug 30 | South Korean Boeing 747 jetliner bound for Seoul apparently strays into Soviet airspace and is shot down by a Soviet SU-15 fighter after it had tracked the airliner for two hours; all 269 aboard are killed, including 61 Americans including and our Secretary of Commerce, Malcolm Baldridge. (UN Fails to Act) |
| Oct 23 |
Terrorist explosion kills 237 U.S. Marines in Beirut, (UN Fails to Act) President Clark orders U.S. Troops and diplomats out of Lebanon. |
| Oct 25 | Caribbean allies invade Grenada, US tries to negotiate and stop the fighting and ultimately pulls out of Caribbean Region. (UN Condems the Invasion) |
| Oct 31 | United States Representative to the United Nations Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Resigns. |
| 1984 | |
| Jan 01 | Bell Company is ordered, President Clark, to give all assets to the US Government for distribution after loosing its anti-trust suit. |
| Jan 01 | President Clark heralds cooperation as France delivers natural gas to USSR. |
| Jan 03 | Syria Murders US Navy pilot on live Arab TV. President Clark Apologizes for invading Syrian Air space. |
| Jan 10 | US refuses to send Diplomat to Vatican, it is a not country. |
| Feb 07 | President Clark Cuts Financial aid to many middle east countries. (UN Condemns US) |
| Feb 09 | Yuri V. Andropov dies at 69. Konstantin U. Chernenko, 72, named Soviet Union leader. |
| Feb 18 | Italy and Vatican agree to end Roman Catholicism as state religion |
| May 07 | Soviets withdraw from the US Summer Olympic Games |
| May 11 | José Napoleón Duarte, moderate, elected president of El Salvador |
| June 06 | Three hundred slain as Indian Army occupies Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar, President Clark denouces the action and order U.S. out of India. (UN Fails to Act) |
| July 19 | Democratic Convention, nominates Walter F. Mondale and Geraldine A. Ferraro |
| Aug 25 | Alexander M. Haig, Jr. & Jeane J. Kirkpatrick run on the Republican Ticket |
| Oct 31 | Indian prime minister assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards; 1,000 killed in anti-Sikh riots; son Rajiv succeeds her, U.S. Embassy re-established at urging of the Vice President. |
| Nov 01 | Nicaraguan free elections, thwarted by Sandinista National Liberation Front. Nicaragua falls under the leadership of the young tyrant dictator Juan Alvarez, after killing presdient Daniel Ortega. U.S. Blamed for not aiding the legitimate democratic government. |
| Nov 06 | Alexander M. Haig, Jr. & Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Elected to the White House. |
| 1985 | |
| Jan 20 |
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Takes the oath of office. |
| Feb 20 |
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher addresses Congress, endorsing Haig's new policies and US/UK Cooperation |
| March 11 |
Konstantin U. Chernenko dies and is replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev |
| June 14 |
Two Shi'ite Muslim gunmen capture TWA airliner with 133 aboard, 104 of them Americans, land in Beirut. The plane is stormed by US/UK forces 39 passengers die as do the gunmen. |
| July 01 |
Supreme Court, 5–4, bars public school teachers from parochial schools |
| Aug 09 | Arthur James Walker, 50, retired naval officer, convicted by federal judge of participating in Soviet spy ring operated by his brother, John Walker. |
| Oct 07 | P.L.O. terrorists hijack Achille Lauro, Italian cruise ship, with 80 passengers, plus crew. US Navy Seals board ship and save everyone. |
| Oct 16 | Italian government Stabilized and US relations strengthen by crisis over hijacking. Italy Joins US/UK coalition against the Communist block. (UN Condems coaltion outside the UN or NATO) |
| Nov 19 | President Haig, Jr sends ultimatum to Gorbachev to pull out of the Caribbean. |
| Nov 21 | Gorbachev Counters with an offer to have an arms summit. |
| Nov 23 | Terrorists seize Egyptian Boeing 737 airliner after takeoff from Athens |
| Nov 24 | Egytian's Storm Air Liner and 59 are killed (UN Failed Negotiations) |
| Dec 12 | US Balanced Budget Bill Enacted |
| 1986 | |
| Jan 01 | Spain and Portugal Join the EEU (European Economic Community). |
| Jan 08 | President freezes Libyan assets in U.S. (UN Backs down to Middle east pressure) |
| Jan 14 | Supreme Court bars racial bias in trial jury selection |
| Jan 26 | Voyager 2 spacecraft reports secrets of Uranus |
| Jan 28 | Space shuttle Challenger explodes after launch at Cape Canaveral, Fla., killing all seven aboard |
| Feb 07 | Haiti president Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France |
| Feb 26 | President Marcos flees Philippines after ruling 20 years, as newly elected Corazon Aquino succeeds him. |
| Feb 28 | Prime Minister Olof Palme of Sweden shot dead |
| March 03 | Austrian president Kurt Waldheim's service as Nazi army officer revealed |
| March 22 | Union Carbide agrees to settlement with victims of Bhopal gas leak in India |
| April 10 | Halley's Comet Yields info on return visit. |
| April 14 | U.S. planes attack Libyan “terrorist centers & Military Sites (UN Does nothing) |
| April 14 | Desmond Tutu elected archbishop in South Africa |
| April 26 | Major nuclear accident at Soviet Union's Chernobyl power station alarms world |
| June 4 | Ex-Navy analyst, Jonathan Jay Pollard, 31, guilty as spy for Israel |
| June 11 | Supreme Court reaffirms abortion rights |
| June 27 | World Court rules U.S. pull out of Nicaragua was criminal, imposes fines to rebuild the country. President Haig Jr. "Tells them to go fly a kite" |
| June 28 | Agency Un-Officially Founded |
| July 07 | Supreme Court voids automatic provisions of budget-balancing law |
| July 24 | Jerry A. Whitworth, ex-Navy radioman, convicted as spy, he is also part of Walker family spy ring. |
| July 26 | Muslim captors release Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco |
| Aug 14 | Senate Judiciary Committee approves William H. Rehnquist as chief justice of U.S. |
| Aug 15 | House votes arms appropriations bill accepting administration's “Star Wars” policy |
| Sep 29 | Congress overrides President Haig's veto of stiff sanctions against South Africa |
| Oct 17 | Congress approves immigration bill barring hiring of illegal aliens, with amnesty provision |
| Oct 22 | President Haig signs $21.7-billion budget reduction measure (Oct. 21). He approves sweeping revision of U.S. tax code |
| Nov 4 | Democrats in sad state in elections, gaining two seats to and still don't have a Senate majority |
| Nov 6 | Secret initiative to sell arms to Iran revealed |
| Nov 19 | President Haig denies exchanging arms for hostages and halts arms sales |
| Nov 25 | Diversion of funds from arms sales to Iran and Funneling money to fund Covert Military Projects, including those helping Israel. |
| 1987 | |
| Jan 20 | William Buckley, U.S. hostage in Lebanon, reported slain (UN Does nothing) |
| May 4 | Supreme Court rules Rotary Clubs must admit women |
| May 17 | Iraqi missiles kill 37 in attack on U.S. frigate USS Stark in Persian Gulf |
| May 18 | Iraqi president apologizes |
| June 11 | Prime Minister Thatcher wins rare third term in Britain |
| June 26 | Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., retires |
| July 4 | Klaus Barbie, 73, Gestapo wartime chief in Lyon, sent to live in other country. |
| July 10 | Oliver North, Jr., tells congressional inquiry higher officials approved his secret Iran weapons sales and they ask where the money went, he does not know. |
| July 22 | Admiral John M. Poindexter, former National Security Adviser, testifies he authorized use of Iran arms sale profits to fund Black Ops |
| July 24 | Secretary of State George P. Shultz testifies he was deceived repeatedly on Funds usage. |
| Aug 03 | Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger tells inquiry of official deception and intrigue. |
| Aug 12 | President Haig denies any involvement in the scandal. |
| Oct 01 | Earthquake in Los Angeles, 6 dead and 100 injured. |
| Oct 23 | Senate, 51–50, accepts Robert H. Bork as Supreme Court justice, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick casting the tie breaking vote. |
| 1988 | |
| Jan 02 | U.S. and Canada reach free trade agreement |
| March 11 | Robert C. McFarlane, former National Security Adviser, pleads guilty in Iran Scandal |
| July 03 | U.S. Navy ship shoots down Iranian airliner in Persian Gulf, mistaking it for jet fighter; 290 killed |
| July 11 | Terrorists kill nine tourists on Aegean cruise (UN fails to act) |
| July 17 | Democratic convention nominates Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts for president and Texas senator Lloyd Bentsen for vice president |
| Aug 15 | Republicans nominate: Alexander M. Haig, Jr. & Jeane J. Kirkpatrick for 2nd term. |
| Aug 17 | Plane blast kills Pakistani president Mohammad Zia ul-Haq |
| Nov 8 | Republicans sweep 40 states in election. Haig beats Dukakis |
| Dec 1 | Benazir Bhutto, first Islamic woman prime minister, chosen to lead Pakistan |
| Dec 21 | Pan-Am 747 explodes from terrorist bomb and crashes in Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 aboard and 11 on ground |
| 1989 | |
| Jan 04 |
U.S. planes shoot down two Libyan fighters over international waters in Mediterranean |
| Jan 07 | Emperor Hirohito of Japan dead at 87 |
| Jan 20 | Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Sworn in for a 2nd Term |
| Feb 14 | Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares author Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses offensive and sentences him to death. US Offers him protection and sets him up in US. |
| March 24 | Ruptured tanker Exxon Valdez sends 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound |
| April 19 | Tens of thousands of Chinese students take over Beijing's Tiananmen Square in rally for democracy |
| May 04 | Lt. Colonel Oliver North Acquitted of all charges in Iran Cover up. |
| May 25 | More than one million in Beijing demonstrate for democracy; chaos spreads across nation |
| May 25 | Mikhail S. Gorbachev named Soviet president |
| June 04 | Thousands killed in Tiananmen Square as Chinese leaders take hard line toward demonstrators. President Haig cuts off all ties with China and asks South Korea, Japan and Vietnam to do the same. (UN Does nothing) |
| Aug 09 | Army general Colin R. Powell is first black chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff. |
| Aug 14 | P. W. Botha quits as South Africa's president |
| Aug 29 | Voyager 2 spacecraft speeds by Neptune after making startling discoveries about the planet and its moons |
| Nov 09 | Deng Xiaoping resigns from China's leadership |
| Nov 11 | Eastern German Police guarding the Berlin wall, gun down 3 East German citizens as the try to escape into the west. |
| Nov 30 | Czech Parliament Strengthens its Communists' Ties. |
| Dec 15 | Romanian uprising overthrows Communist government, President Ceausescu and wife executed on Christmas day. |
| Dec 20 | U.S. troops invade Panama, Killing Gen. Manuel Noriega, US captures Panama. |
Last Updated: 03/16/2008